u/Wanderjugend

The Second Great War with Equestria is the final war with custom content in the submod, once it is concluded the ensuing puppet states are dynamic based on whether the National Communists or Arisian Vanguardists won in the Lightningist Course Balance of Power.

These states will receive a facelift and perhaps total overhaul once the Equus update comes out, as evidenced by the fact I had to use Arctic Lily for the Crystal puppet state I was struggling for how to make the puppet states not be 'generic military/collaborationist project number 542'.

After the SGW there are four epilogue foci and a series of events that set up and provide one of four endings dependent on your actions over the course of the playthrough. Of these endings three provide the ability to begin a 'Warplan Hydrogen' of your own, one targeting every state on the planet rather than just the Supremacist ones.

After this final event the submod is 'complete', though there is another unique event if the player achieves a World Conquest.

I only have the last half of the focus tree GFX to complete, and some more playtesting and bugfixing to do, but if anyone is interested in playtesting the mod ahead of release don't hesitate to DM me so we can work something out.

The war with whoever remakes the Storm Kingdom shall be the first of the two major wars the submod introduces, following this war the Rainband shall be returned to the zebra, and the player is then given two mutually exclusive choices on how to 'deal' with the Yeti.

While no puppets are planned to have content on release, I will likely look into doing that as the first or second post-release major update.

The zebra puppet state is led by a submod-original character, I am looking into commissioning a custom portrait for her before or soon after release but am struggling a little on that front.
This, and one other, character shall come to be minor side characters within the submod's narrative, on par with Starry Eyes should the player not purge her.

After all, what did you think decolonisation and anti-imperialism meant? General Secretary Lightning is a firm believer in Land Back!

I always found it strange that HIP completely lacks a custom newspaper header despite the fact Colthage got one. In light of this, I have used my, limited, GFX skills to create one that is unlocked when Crack Lightning becomes General Secretary.
I went with 'Cherry' for the newspaper's name as a play on the name of the National Bolshevik Party of Russia's newspaper 'Limonka'. Limonka meaning lemon, grenade, and a play on 'Limonov' (the party's founder), while 'cherry' is a cherry, cherry bomb, and play on 'Charlie' from 'Charles Lindbergh', who Lightning is based on.

Hello, I finally decided to get around to posting this stuff on reddit!

I’ve always felt a bit sad that the National Communist Lightning path ends after just two focuses, next to the brilliant Plan Hydrogen Posada route it’s clearly under-explored.

With that in mind I’m proud to announce Lightningism Ascendant a submod that expands NatCom Lightning into a full-length path with roughly the same scope as Plan Hydrogen Posada. I’m a solo modder and this is my first project that does more than simple portrait swaps, but my goal is for the finished route to be fully playable and enjoyable from start to finish in the near future.

The initial release is planned to have:

• Around 100 new focuses.
• Around 100 new events, both mechanical and flavour.
• Two major wars with Equestria and the Stormlands, each with custom flavour events and branching options for how to deal with their populations after victory.
• Two minor wars with Wingbardy and a buffed Puerto Caballo.
• A World Conquest version of Warplan Hydrogen.
• Dynamic updates to Twinkle Sprinkle’s Abridged Guide to the Places of the World, depending on the focuses you take and decisions you make.
• The return of the much-beloved Crack Lightning aviation reviews for BBA (which turned out to be surprisingly painful to reimplement).

And various smaller features and bits of flavour on top. Thank you for reading, and remember: Posada will be avenged!